Jeanne Cavelos

Biography

Jeanne Cavelos is an American Science Fiction writer, editor, and astrophysicist. She began her professional life as an astrophysicist and mathematician, teaching astronomy at Michigan State University and Cornell University, and working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

After earning her MFA in creative writing, she moved into a career in publishing, becoming a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she created and launched the Abyss imprint of psychological horror, for which she won the World Fantasy Award, and the Cutting Edge imprint of literary fiction. She also ran the science fiction/fantasy publishing program. In addition, she edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction.

In 1994, she left New York to pursue her own writing career. She is the author of science fiction and horror short fiction, tie-in novels to the Babylon 5 universe, and non-fiction works delving into the science of media universes such as Star Wars and The X-Files, and edited an anthology of Van Helsing stories.

Cavelos lives in New Hampshire and is the founder of the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust, which offers a six-week workshop each summer, online classes each winter, a critique service, and many free resources. During the school year, she is an English lecturer at Saint Anselm College, where she teaches writing and literature.